While football is the ideal profession for many young people, many professional footballers have given up this lucrative job to devote themselves to other passions, often very far from the green field. Forced by unexpected circumstances or trained to leave the fields, these 10 footballers stopped playing professionally to launch themselves into different horizons, some of which are quite surprising.
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Drastic career changes
Stéphane Guivarc'h, striker of the French team during the 98 World Cup and former world champion, now sells swimming pools in Brittany. For many people, this is an unexpected conversion for one of the most promising players in the French championship.
In fact, not all players want to stay in football, and some even prefer to get away from this sometimes harsh environment. One can also choose an environment even more suffocating than football, like George Weah who is now President of Liberia.
Before his political pursuit, Weah made history as the first African footballer in history to win the Ballon d'Or.
From footballer to wrestler
Another incredible story is that of Tim Wiese, former Bayer Leverkusen goalkeeper, who has been playing in the WWE as a professional wrestler since 2014, a change that is hardly predictable by fans of the sport. You will find above, within our gallery, ten former footballers with incredibly amazing reconversion in their careers.
This article has been translated fromGentside FR.
